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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






2. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






3. Transit of Venus.






4. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






5. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






6. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






7. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






8. Triple conjunction Mars






9. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






10. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






11. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






12. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






13. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






14. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






15. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






16. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






17. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






18. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






19. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






20. Triple conjunction Mars






21. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






22. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






23. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






24. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






25. Transit of Venus on June 11.






26. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






27. March 17






28. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






29. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






30. Triple conjunction Mars






31. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






32. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






33. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






34. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






35. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






36. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






37. Triple conjunction Mars






38. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






39. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






40. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






41. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






42. Triple conjunction Mars






43. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






44. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






45. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






46. Transit of Mercury.






47. Triple conjunction Mars






48. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






49. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






50. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.